Perhaps I'll do that. It's not like it's a Brough Superior. I have another engine, though it's an '81.What do you think the odds are that the engine was previously damaged, repaired and no one ever bothered to clean the side filter?
I'd almost be tempted to put it together and run it. see what kinda noise it makes and look at the screens again after an hour or two of running.
I thought the shorted rotor would be reason enough to park it. It wasn't going far that way.